by Doc

Editor’s Note:

“Thank you” to everyone in the gaming community for supporting this effort. Late last night, iTunes restored their subcategory podcast listings. This post is being left up for archiving purposes, however, at this time, no further action or emails are necessary. (Unless you want to thank Apple for addressing this issue so quickly)

Sarcastic Gamer, and countless other podcasters, need YOUR help.

In what appears to be a rather RANDOM decision, Apple has decided to eliminate the subcategory pages on iTunes. Instead of seeing new and interesting podcasts, when you click on “Games and Hobbies”, or “Video Games”, you get an incomplete laundry list of random podcasts. Many of those shows are defunct, abandoned, or unlistenable. This leaves podcasts, like Sarcastic Gamer, in a very scary no man’s land, where noone can discover the show. We’re not the only ones. Our entire GCN Family seems to have been left off of the list.

It’s not fair to the shows that consistently provide iTunes content, enriching the iTunes experience for its users, to abandon these pages, in the manner that Apple has done. Now, most of the shows that you can discover are those produced by large networks and “Featured Content Providers.”

On behalf of all podcasters, including your GCN family of providers, we would like you to consider writing a brief note to Apple, asking them to please bring back the subcategory featured listings in iTunes. Should you (a) agree with our position, and (b) decide to contribute 2 minutes of your time to this effort, we ask that you be brief, specific, and courteous in your message to Apple. Simply ask them to bring back the subcategory pages on iTunes so that independent podcasts can continue to find new audiences, thus enriching their iTunes experiences. The email form is at the bottom of the following page.

Under category, be sure to choose OTHER PODCAST QUESTION.

Here’s the link.

On behalf of every independent podcaster, like Sarcastic Gamer, thank you for your time and assistance. We truly appreciate your help.

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